# What is perceptdot? 👁️

perceptdot gives your AI agent **eyes** — it takes a screenshot of any website and tells you exactly what's broken.

Connect it to Claude Code or any MCP-compatible AI tool, and your agent can automatically detect layout bugs, overflowing elements, clipped text, and visual glitches — without you having to look.

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## What it finds

✅ Buttons overflowing outside their container\
✅ Text getting clipped or cut off\
✅ Elements overlapping and hiding each other\
✅ Broken layouts and misaligned sections

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## How it works

1️⃣ Your AI opens the website\
2️⃣ Takes a full-page screenshot (tiled at 1280×1600px)\
3️⃣ Analyzes each tile with Gemini 2.5 Flash\
4️⃣ Reports: *"The CTA button in section 3 overflows by 18px"*

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## Two ways to use perceptdot

|                | MCP Server                           | GitHub Action       |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------- |
| **Best for**   | AI-assisted development              | CI/CD automation    |
| **Works with** | Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline | Any GitHub workflow |
| **Trigger**    | Ask your AI                          | Every deployment    |
| **Setup**      | 1 command                            | \~10 lines of YAML  |

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## Performance

* **5–20s** for a first scan (depends on page height)
* **\~0.3s** for cached results
* Supports **desktop** (1280px) · **tablet** (768px) · **mobile** (375px)

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## Ready in 1 minute

Jump straight to setup 👉 [⚡ Quick Install](/perceptdot/install.md)


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://perceptdot.gitbook.io/perceptdot/readme.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.